On 18/06/2020 19:24, Nick Odell wrote:
Just wondering about any known issues with this type of Kitchen tap?

We have just recently fitted one and also recently have noticed an off
taste to the water. Correllation is not causation, I know, and the
water company here have recently been changing the concentration of
purifying additives, so although it could be that, it does not seem to
be that sort of taste. I am wondering if the rubber/plastic/whatever
lining to the hose section might be tainting the flavour?

Any experiences to share?

Thanks!

Nick

I wouldn't expect it to be that, but I had one of the cheaper ones and
that wasn't very robust. I forget exactly what failied, but I
subsequently replaced it with a separate "flexi spray on a stalk" as
seen in commercial kitchens. Just hot water of course, so I never drink
it. But that has been much more satisfactory.

On 6/18/2020 7:24 PM, Nick Odell wrote:
Just wondering about any known issues with this type of Kitchen tap?

We have just recently fitted one and also recently have noticed an off
taste to the water. Correllation is not causation, I know, and the
water company here have recently been changing the concentration of
purifying additives, so although it could be that, it does not seem to
be that sort of taste. I am wondering if the rubber/plastic/whatever
lining to the hose section might be tainting the flavour?

Any experiences to share?

We've had that sort of kitchen tap for years, and have not noticed an
off taste from it.
What does the water taste like from the bathroom tap?

On 18/06/20 19:24, Nick Odell wrote:
Just wondering about any known issues with this type of Kitchen tap?

We have just recently fitted one and also recently have noticed an off
taste to the water. Correllation is not causation, I know, and the
water company here have recently been changing the concentration of
purifying additives, so although it could be that, it does not seem to
be that sort of taste. I am wondering if the rubber/plastic/whatever
lining to the hose section might be tainting the flavour?

Any experiences to share?

Thanks!

Have you fitted a new cold water hose to the washing machine recently?
When we experienced a strange odour and taste in cold water from the
kitchen tap, we asked the Water Company if they'd changed anything
recently. When they said they hadn't we reckoned it could only be the
new flexible hose to the cold water inlet of the washing machine, even
though this was only connected to the supply by a short pipe off a
junction and then controlled by an isolating valve. After switching off
the valve the strange odour and taste disappeared. We switched the valve
on only to use the washing machine, and then switched it off again.
After half a dozen or so washes we tried leaving the valve on all the
time. There was no taste or smell then or since.

So, remarkably, it seems something was coming from the new pipe and
working its way backwards to the water supply to the tap.

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Jeff

Just wondering about any known issues with this type of Kitchen tap?

We have just recently fitted one and also recently have noticed an off
taste to the water. Correllation is not causation, I know, and the
water company here have recently been changing the concentration of
purifying additives, so although it could be that, it does not seem to
be that sort of taste. I am wondering if the rubber/plastic/whatever
lining to the hose section might be tainting the flavour?

Any experiences to share?

Thanks!

Nick

On Thu, 18 Jun 2020 18:22:42 +0100, S Viemeister
wrote:

On 6/18/2020 7:24 PM, Nick Odell wrote:
Just wondering about any known issues with this type of Kitchen tap?

We have just recently fitted one and also recently have noticed an off
taste to the water. Correllation is not causation, I know, and the
water company here have recently been changing the concentration of
purifying additives, so although it could be that, it does not seem to
be that sort of taste. I am wondering if the rubber/plastic/whatever
lining to the hose section might be tainting the flavour?

Any experiences to share?

We've had that sort of kitchen tap for years, and have not noticed an
off taste from it.
What does the water taste like from the bathroom tap?

Good question, but it is not necessarily from the same supply. This is
an apartment about 8,000 miles from the UK and because of the way the
building was constructed, this size apartment has one cold water feed
to the hot water boiler for the whole flat from a tank on the roof and
three separate cold water feeds to various cold taps that might or
might not come from the same tank. The taste of the bathroom water is
not quite the same as the utility room water but both show the
increase in chlorine style treatment but neither have what I would
describe as the faint background taste of synthetic oil I detect in
the kitchen water.

I wanted to eliminate the possibility that the kitchen tap hose might
be causing the problem before trying to untangle what is going on on
the roof.

Thanks,

Nick

If you have another mains water tap, that would prove it one way or the
other I'd imagine.
Brian

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On 18/06/2020 19:24, Nick Odell wrote:
Just wondering about any known issues with this type of Kitchen tap?

We have just recently fitted one and also recently have noticed an off
taste to the water. Correllation is not causation, I know, and the
water company here have recently been changing the concentration of
purifying additives, so although it could be that, it does not seem to
be that sort of taste. I am wondering if the rubber/plastic/whatever
lining to the hose section might be tainting the flavour?

Any experiences to share?

Thanks!

Nick

I wouldn't expect it to be that, but I had one of the cheaper ones and
that wasn't very robust. I forget exactly what failied, but I subsequently
replaced it with a separate "flexi spray on a stalk" as seen in commercial
kitchens. Just hot water of course, so I never drink it. But that has been
much more satisfactory.

On Fri, 19 Jun 2020 14:41:18 +0100, "Brian Gaff \(Sofa\)"
wrote:

If you have another mains water tap, that would prove it one way or the
other I'd imagine.

As I said elsewhere in the thread, the water supply here is
complicated. I wanted to eliminate the mixer tap hose from my
enquiries so was asking for anecdotes about any known problems from
that direction.

Nick